News & Insights

Roanoke Trade is thrilled to announce the winner of this year’s National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America scholarship award.   Ms. Irmak Sensoz is the proud recipient of a $5,000 scholarship for her essay titled “Impacts of the US-China Trade War.” Ms. Sensoz’s outstanding work met or exceeded all of the requirements to receive the award.   The award will be presented on Monday, April 15, 2019, by Karen Groff, President of Roanoke Insurance Group, Inc., at the 46th NCBFAA Annual Conference. Introducing Ms. Groff will be Anne-Marie Bush, the 2019  NCBFAA Annual Conference Chair   Our winner, […]

UPDATE: This conference has been canceled until 2021. Roanoke Trade team members Amanda Barlow and Patrice Lafayette will be at the upcoming 2020 ICPA Annual Conference in San Diego. Make sure to stop by our booth as they are excited to speak with you and answer any questions you have about insurance, customs bonds and ATA Carnets. Taking education one step further, Patrice will be presenting Compliance Strategies for Maintaining Customs Bonds During and After The Trade Wars on Monday March 16th from 2:45 – 3:45pm.

  Absent any implementation delay, starting on March 17, CBP will begin using its new version of the CBP Form 5106. The new version differs quite significantly from the current version, and many of the changes, while optional, involve collecting more details about the entity. For those that file the form by mail/email with CBP, the Revenue Division will not accept the old version after March 17. For customs brokers that file the information through ABI, there is a hard cutover with no overlap. To assist the trade with identifying the changes to the form – particularly the newly required […]

5 Steps to Managing Continuous Import Bonds in Today’s Trade War Environment Due to the dynamic trade environment, properly calculating the amount of a continuous import bond has never been more important. The higher tariffs have precipitated a spike in CBP-mandated increases to customs bond amounts. Fortunately there are 5 steps to better manage Continuous Import Bonds in today’s trade war environment. If you’re interested in learning more, then please join us. Roanoke Insurance Group is proud to partner with the Airforwarders Association (AfA) in delivery of a FREE AfA member webinar! The presentation is titled, Bond Sufficiency in the […]

3 Risk Management Methods to Help You Avoid  E&O Claims | Free Webinar Managing risk is just as important as managing the growth of your company. To learn more, join us Thursday, March 21 at 12pm CDT for a free webinar. “How to Avoid E&O Claims Using 3 Risk Management Methods” features two leading experts in transportation liability insurance. Presenting the webinar will be Karen Rzeszutko, Vice President, Professional Liability with Roanoke Insurance Group, Inc. and Lenny Feldman, Operating Committee Member with Sandler, Travis and Rosenberg, PA. If you’re a customs broker, property broker, domestic freight forwarder, international freight forwarder, or […]

‘Step Toward Success’ with the Roanoke team in San Antonio for the 46th Annual NCBFAA Conference! This important, yearly conference brings together more than 600 of the international trade industry’s top representatives from around the United States. Roanoke is also hosting the NCBFAA Outdoor Hospitality Gathering. We hope you can join us! Registration Information: April 14, 2019through April 17, 2019 Grand Hyatt San Antonio San Antonio, TXUSA Earlybird Registration Deadline: March 8, 2019 Advance Registration Deadline: March 22, 2019